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Maodong villagers have grown accustomed to tour buses arriving over the years.
Tourists are drawn to the Xifeng Concentration Camp memorial hall, a revolutionary history museum in the village that sits in Guiyang city of Guizhou province. The concentration camp was the largest, highest-level prison set up by the Kuomintang in 1938 and was abolished in 1946. More than 1,200 members of the Communist Party of China and patriots were detained there, and 600 of them were tortured and killed in the prison.
The prison is now a popular patriotic education site in Guizhou.
Chen Mengju, an official of Maodong village, says annual tourist visits to the site have exceeded 700,000.
The site's popularity has also boosted rural tourism in the village.
Many tourists would go on to tour the rest of Maodong after visiting the camp, especially during the spring and summer.
Unique folk dwellings are built against the mountain backdrop, with red flowers and green willows dancing in the warm spring breeze and a gurgling stream nearby.
When the summer comes, many...